No publication data but a trademark symbol with two towers and S, S; and 425002, stapled card covers iwth Bunny taking orders on this orange phone and two big baskets of eggs, one tagged Exportm 8 pages with two sets of drawings and lyrics on each. Toploader large softcover German..... more
No indication of publishing data. A shaped card barn of silvery wood and red roof surrounded on the front by Holly Berries, with a big double door to open, revealing interior pocket with white horse eating hay next to hanging plow horse collar; on the back a closed door and..... more
{White Plains, New York], White Plains Greeting Card Corp Copyright 1952; metal spiral binding covered by wraps with large Santa; in box with same picture, 22 pages. Novelty Boxed book softcover. Unique in that every toy is completely present and in perfect condition; even the life saver retains its cellophane..... more
No publishing data on this copy. Probably a blank advertising sample: The Cotsen collection at Princeton has one of these with The Broadway Department Store text on the back. The book appears to be from around 1910. Three sheets of heavy card stapled making 10 interior pages. Cover with Mother..... more
No publication data, (circa 1940s?) brown and white puppy with holly and red bow, textured card shaped on almost 3 sides and original red fabric ribbon bow glued on. 3.5 x 6.5. Toploader little. An illustrated four page story, in which Spot the puppy feels left out until Santa puts..... more
New York: Leavitt and Allen, no date, circa 1860's; brown pressed cloth, hand coloured illustrations, 3x4.5"; 32 pp. Small hardback. Stories for older children about daily life, and more, The Skating Party, The Arrest, The Soldiers, The Depot, Snowballing, Blind Man's Buff, The Magnetic Swan, and others. Appears to have..... more
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1989, 1st printing; shiny blue boards with large picture of all five friends playing at Nancy's house, lemon yellow endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, oblong 10.25x8.75; np. Picture Book hardback. Bright, flat gouache paintings tell the story of four best friends and the new..... more
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 770 Broadway, corner of Ninth Street, 1872 on title page, first or early US printing; printers, Clay, Sons and Taylor, London, green cloth boards with children pulling giant crackers in gilt, black rules; brown endpapers, title page vignette, and 4 black and..... more
New York: Viking, 1934, 1st, blue cloth backed paper boards with portrait of Hansi and on back his little cabin and his dachshund sleeping, endpapers show the Uncle's and Aunt's cosy mountain house in detail, like an opened doll house, 9x12.25; np. Picture Book hardback. Hansi lives with his mother..... more
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1979/1977, 2nd printing of the British publication; glossy pictorial boards with the family and the three kings, dark grey endpapers with white sheep pattern, oblong 12x8.5"; np. Picture Book hardback. Hoffmann's striking line and glowing colour in a modern interpretation of the Nativity..... more
New York: Viking 1946/1946, 1st sd, nap; black cloth spine, red boards with children's Nativity scene; endpapers with children setting up the props; in jacket identical to boards; oblong 10x9. Picture Book hardback. A school Christmas play, from the first sketches of the donkey to the curtain calls and exits..... more
New York: Philomel Books, 1997, 1st printing; dark blue shiny boards with white printing, blue endpapers, jacket with painting of a family in a sleigh riding through the snow; 8.9x11"; np. Picture Book hardback. The birth of a baby in Vermont on Christmas Eve. Each little chapter, illustrated with paintings..... more
Philadelphia, PA; the Westminster Press 1976/1962 reissue of radio text, translated by Harriet de Onís with musical ornaments by Jack Delano, shiny cloth green boards with white title panel edged in gilt, white endpapers with gilt star pattern, issued with glassine wrap, 9.25x11.5"; 34 pp. Picture book hardback. Originally written..... more
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002, stated 1st, nl; shiny boards with needlepoint of a white bear and dancing trolls, icicle border; endpapers with a black sky with blue fanciful constellations, in jacket with black starry sky, icicles, a giant white bear at the door on the front and..... more
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975, 1st American, printed in Great Britain, top board with Father Christmas enjoying an ice-cream cone by the sea, 7 cartoons from the book on bottom bd; blue endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 8.5 x 10"; np. Picture book hardback. Santa deserves a...... more
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press 1888/co 1887, 1st tp; grey cloth with brown titles and graceful stamped picture in brown and gilt of the wind blowing through pines and birds flying before it; steel cut floral tan on white endpapers, engravings, 7x9. Juvenile hardback. The wind..... more
New York: Delacorte Press, 1994, 1st printing, nl; red paper boards, blue cloth spine, gold endpapers, red jacket with family relaxing around the Christmas tree while the twins dance, 8vo; 147 pp. Juvenile hardback. A happy, funny, modern family celebrates Christmas. And Robbie begins to think about how other people..... more
NorthSouth, 2011, printed in Kowloon Bay Hong Kong; little polar bear and his friend climb up a yellow ladder on a giant snowy Christmas tree hung with presents for each day through Dec 24, lift the flap to see inside (which we cannot because this is in the original shrinkwrap..... more
New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1940) probable 1st and only G&D original, two 1939 titles on rear flap; yellow paper boards with Menino, his monkey, and the family donkey, endpapers with full illustration of the boy and his father with the ox cart, colorful pictures on every other spread alternate..... more
New York: Viking, August, 1966/1959, 7th printing stated; pink/tan cloth boards with all over design of piñatas in brown outline, endpapers with spread of Ceci and her mother at the bus stop, setting out to buy her piñata, jacket with wrap around painting of Ceci and the posada procession; with..... more
New York: Viking, Nov. 1960/1959, 3rd printing stated; pink/tan cloth boards with all over design of piñatas in brown outline, endpapers with spread of Ceci and her mother at the bus stop, setting out to buy her piñata, jacket with wrap around painting of Ceci and the posada procession; with..... more
Reinbek near Hamburg : Carlsen Verlag, nd, [c. 1965] early, white heavy board book with cloth spine and 8 interior pages. Children's foreign language German. All the well wishers for my little darling's birthday: the Baker bakes a cake, the tailor makes a red coat... a birthday board book, undated..... more
New York: Veritas Press, Inc., (1941) early reprint, later books mentioned on dw flap to 1945; pictorial boards with Mr. Pink and the children and dog sitting on a hill overlooking the Copley's house on the roof of the button factory; yellow endpapers with scattered buttons, in jacket identical to..... more
New York: C. S. Francis & Company, 252 Broadway, Boston: J. H. Francis, 128 Washington Street, 1850 on title page, prelims have a list of Francis & Co's Little Library for young person's of various ages; dark green blindstamped boards with elaborately decorated gilt spine; tissue guarded frontis with children..... more
Racine, WI, Golden Books, Artists and Writers Guild Books, 1993 1st US (1993 Heinemann); shiny boards with Sam and his penguin cuddled by polar bears (Sam's day-dream of Aunt Agatha's house), endpapers of very large polar bears skating in a pale blue day; 8.25x10.25"; np. Picture book hardback. Once the..... more